Quick Update

Weather: Cold and partly cloudy... rain is on its way
Listening to: Oddly, nothing... it sure is quiet.

Reading this week: I need to update the Library as well, but I may be finished with Lemony Snicket's The Hostile Hospital before I even get that far. I mean I read The Vile Village in a day on Wednesday. I mention it because one of Snicket's quirks is to slip literary references into his children's stories in funny ways... last night he used Haruki Murakami as a hospital patient. So the author of one book in my top 20 is referencing the author of another book in my top 20. I found it amusing... especially since the target audience for Snicket's books probably won't read Murakami for years to come. Though I should have noticed some of the influence Murakami has on Snicket's writing (thematically.) I have also borrowed a short book called The Gospel Reloaded which is about the religious symbolism in The Matrix movies. Something I noticed a while back during a discussion with some friends... If I get into that this weekend, it'll be a miracle, but it is sitting out and I do have to return it at some point. Poor Mr. De Landa just can't catch a break with me lately. A Thousand Years of Non Linear History has been sitting around with a book mark wedged 1/3 of the way into it for weeks. I have a new (to me) Phillip K. Dick novel lined up as well.

Well, I've been slacking this week. In the process of adding a hard drive to our server at work, I unfortunately discovered a nest of Legionares Disease spores in some thick, greasy black lint at the bottom of the computer case. Within hours of exposure I was certain that it would be effecting my blogging drive. Well, it felt like Legionares Disease... yuk... Filthy stuff. Worse part is that in the process of dealing with it has gotten into the air here and I'm hoping I haven't vetured back to work too soon.

It is Friday though so I'm sure I can make it one day without a relapse. I've building up momentum on the main website lately too. I'll be editing and uploading a lot of old work during the next few weeks to sort of get myself up to speed again and provide a framework for more entries. College was very prolific but also very naive for me. There are a lot fo great ideas in my research that ended up with not so great conclusions attached to them. I'm hoping that a re-examination of those ideas will yield better fruit the second time around. As things go up, I'll post their arrival here and link to them as need be.